From: Guest <ath-admin@...>
Date: 2006-04-22T05:41:34+09:00
Subject: Re: Newbie questoin of the day:A for loop that counts backwa

MenDAKE wrote:
> How do I get a for loop to count backwards?
> 
> I have the loop...
> 
> for i in 1 ... 8
> 
> ...but I want it to start at 8 and end at 1. This does NOT work:
> 
> for i in 8 ... 1
> 
> Thanks for helping out a newbie.

I like doing it this way... it makes more sense to me:

x = 8
while x > 0
  x = x-1
 puts x
end

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